Mechanism to mitigate color breakup artifacts in field sequential color display systems
First Claim
1. A system for displaying a respective image in response to each frame of a field-sequential video signal, the system comprising:
- light sources of different primary colors;
a light guide having a light input edge for receiving light of the different primary colors from the light sources and propagating the light in the light guide by total internal reflection; and
an array of pixels that are opened and closed by a movable member that deforms under application of an electric field to frustrate the total internal reflection of propagated light in the light guide at defined locations on the light guide according to a predetermined shuttering sequence to output light of the different primary colors from the light guide consecutively in a time of less than 4 milliseconds during the frame of the video signal, and to output no light during the remainder of the frame,the pixels being operable to modulate the light of each primary color output from the light guide in at least one of intensity and pulse width.
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Abstract
A mechanism for mitigating undesired color image breakup artifacts arising in display systems that exploit the principle of field sequential color generation. By suitably reducing the time interval during which image information strikes the moving retina, such that the differential position for the respective red, green, and blue components of the image falling upon the moving retina does not exceed the diameter of a retinal cone or rod, the cause of the breakup is negated and the image becomes unitary as expected: the eye sees the image as if all the components arrived at the same time. The truncation of light emission into shorter time frames necessitates a compensatory increase in imaging light intensity, such that the net amount of photonic flux striking the retina, averaged over time, remains unchanged. The mechanism can be applied to systems with discrete red, green, and blue sources as well as to color-wheel-based systems.
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1. A system for displaying a respective image in response to each frame of a field-sequential video signal, the system comprising:
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light sources of different primary colors; a light guide having a light input edge for receiving light of the different primary colors from the light sources and propagating the light in the light guide by total internal reflection; and an array of pixels that are opened and closed by a movable member that deforms under application of an electric field to frustrate the total internal reflection of propagated light in the light guide at defined locations on the light guide according to a predetermined shuttering sequence to output light of the different primary colors from the light guide consecutively in a time of less than 4 milliseconds during the frame of the video signal, and to output no light during the remainder of the frame, the pixels being operable to modulate the light of each primary color output from the light guide in at least one of intensity and pulse width. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for displaying a respective image in response to each frame of a field-sequential video signal, the method comprising:
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opening and closing an array of pixels by a movable member that deforms under application of an electric field to frustrate total internal reflection of propagated light of different primary colors in a light guide at defined locations on the light guide according to a predetermined shuttering sequence to output light of the different primary colors from the light guide consecutively in a time of less than 4 milliseconds during the frame of the video signal, and to output no light during the remainder of the frame, and operating the pixels to modulate the light of each primary color output from the light guide in at least one of intensity and pulse width. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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